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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

This look MAGA to you OP?

Pictured:

  • /r/liberalgunowners patch
  • Ukraine patch
  • Imperial Storm Trooper AR-15 (OK, you kinda got me on that one.)
  • wife's Christmas present (hot pink Bersa Thunder .380)
  • Pilipino flag
  • 20-yo hat, bought before assholes took over the flag
  • 20-round mag, kinda prefer the 10s, standard 30s are a bit much for reasons

Not pictured:

OK, the crushed Keystone cans scream redneck, but not MAGA.

To top it off, that's in Florida, where it's perfectly OK to paint us with a fat "conservative asshole who deserves whatever happens to them" brush.

And 01/06 gave me fucking PTSD thank you very fucking much. And I don't say that lightly.

(Glad I took a minute on this post! Found some cool new patches.)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Gonna be straight, the hand guard doesn't scream MAGA, but it's kinda borderline fudd-y. :P A carbon fiber M-LOK hand guard and a low-profile gas block would be better, unless you're reeeeaaaaaalllllly attached to that A2 front sight post.

I still prefer the 30 round magazines, since they're cheap, easy to find, and are better for making it through high round count matches without lots of reloads. :)

As an aside to all of that, when I talk to younger people at matches--I'm probably about your age, maybe a little older--many of them are in favor of things Dems say that they're in favor of (except gun control). I think that's one of the sticking points for a lot of the younger rednecks in rural parts of the country.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Imma be dumb here, but I think the holes in the hand guard are M-LOK? Not looking to attach tools there in any case.

low-profile gas block

Uh, you lost me, but I'm listening. LOL, this is why I went with a plain Ruger Whiteout. Still learning, but didn't want to fuck up rolling my own.

And yes, I'm loving the A2 sight. Practicality aside, I saw this on sale and thought, "Huh. M16 in Star Wars? Sold." The light is a normal Olight I happened to have, but it glares on the front sight. Can't find it again, but someone posted a nice adapter that would throw it out further. Know what I'm talking about? Couldn't find one at the time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Apolopgies for this wall; I'm literally autistic, and guns have been one of my particular areas of interest for, um, 40-odd years.

That style of hand guard, AFAIK, doesn't accept M-LOK or keymod accessories. I can't be sure though; what you'd be looking for is something like this -> https://www.aeroprecisionusa.com/ar15-atlas-s-one-m-lok-handguard The slots are what the M-LOK mounts go into. (Aero Precision is kinda pricey, IMO.) The added benefit is that it floats your barrel; it's only connected to the upper receiver, and not the barrel, so you can get slightly better accuracy out of it.

You can get the metal parts of the rifle cerakoted white, if that's of interest to you.

You can get a gas block that fits under your hand guard. That allows your hand guard can go all the way to the end of your barrel which gives you more options for mounting accessories and hand positioning. Gas blocks come in a variety of styles, but a fixed and pinned (e.g., held on with a roll pin) block will work for almost everyone. An adjustable gas block may be better for people that are running silencers, since that affects gas pressure in the system, but I have no direct experience with them since silencers are $$$. If you replace the hand guard with an M-LOK hand guard, you'll need to replace the front sight with a low profile gas block.

I'm personally not a fan of iron sights because my eyes suck. I use an LPVO and a canted red dot, and that's worked very well for me. I can reliably hit targets out to 340y (or, that's the longest I've shot to, and that was at a match), and there's no way in hell I'd be able to to that with irons.

FWIW, AR-15s are basically like Legos for adults; they're almost infinitely modular, and most parts work just fine with other parts as long as they're from reputable manufacturers.

I don't know about Olight adapters specifically, but I've seen LEP heads for Surefire bodies. IIRC the Blazer LEP Z-Bolt is good to at least 300y, and it's bright. There's very little spill; it's very, very focused. I've shot out to 150y with a Streamlight ProTAC; it's not great at that distance, but it works. It's got a lot of spill and decent throw, so you still have peripheral sight.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

According to the US government, the most dangerous thing in this picture is that bag of Kinder Surprise chocolates

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

HWAT?! I have no idea where such chocolates came from.

My wife is Filipina. Perhaps her godless island chain?! (They're mostly Catholic, yeah I said it, godless papist idolators.)

I'm MURICAN goddamnit! We respect the rule of law!